Supreme Court of North Carolina June 5, 1871 (Coon v. North Carolina Railroad)

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Boyden, J.

The roads which the defendant was bound to make and keep in repair, by the provision in the 26th section of their charter of incorporation, are public highways, recognized as such by the appointment ot overseers and hands, to work and keep them in repair, for the use of a whole community, and not neighborhood mill and church roads, which have never been recognized as public